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Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Confirmed in Florida
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Allison Quinn, News Editor
Published Jul. 04, 2020 10:09PM ET
Fullduplexxx
(7,866 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)NCDem47
(2,250 posts)Staying alive is hard.
mokawanis
(4,447 posts)the amoeba has been slowly eating Trump's brain, lessening his ability to think and speak and walk down ramps.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)A local radio show has a bit where they read a story of someone doing something dumb and then ask if it happened in Florida. The answer usually is yes.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,188 posts)Please tell me more.
Voltaire2
(13,095 posts)Jirel
(2,018 posts)Warm, still water = naegleria. Summer in FL means lots of super warm water. Global warming means higher temps. Even when I was a kid going to FL with my parents for vacation, you couldnt pay me to get into any water other than a clean pool or the ocean.
obamanut2012
(26,087 posts)I live here, and will only go into the ocean, never fresh or brackish water, because of gators and naegleria, Ever.
EllieBC
(3,025 posts)This year its just one more thing but its pretty rare. Its not that common.
pwb
(11,280 posts)Global warming will bring many new organisms. The south is screwed.
Takket
(21,592 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)babylonsister
(171,075 posts)I agree for the most part; I surely wouldn't be swimming in any gator-infested waters.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,188 posts)But gators seem to stay away from those, preferring the darker tannin waters.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)cabot
(724 posts)What's next?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)But I don't need that spot if we get giant "meteor impact" or "hostile space alien invasion".
ornotna
(10,804 posts)It's got vibrio in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio